About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

October 19......

October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.

● 439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

● 1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.

● 1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.

● 1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Toruń. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.

● 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

● 1765 - The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.

● 1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.

● 1789 - Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

● 1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte of France retreats from Moscow.

● 1813 - The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

● 1935 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.

● 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

● 1944 - The Navy announced that black women would be allowed into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

● 1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines.

● 1950 - United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

● 1950 - The military of the People's Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.

● 1951 - President Harry S. Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.

● 1953 - Arthur Godfrey fires Julius LaRosa live on American national TV.

● 1954 - 'Metal fatigue' caused Comet crashes; The first day of the public inquiry into the crashes of two Comet airliners within months of each other hears that metal fatigue is the most likely cause.

● 1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu

● 1960 - The United States government decides to place an embargo on Communist Cuba, still in place today.

● Niue - Constitution Day in honour of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974.

● French Republican Calendar - Tomate (Tomato) Day, twenty-eighth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

● October 19 Eastern Orthodox liturgics

● All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 1 by Old Calendarists● Saints:● Righteous John of Kronstadt, Wonderworker● Prophet Joel (800 B.C.)● Martyrs Varus, Cleopatra, her son John, and six monks in Egypt (307)● Hieromartyr Sadoc, Bishop of Persia, and 128 martyrs with him (342)● Saint Leontius the Philosopher of St. Sabbas' Monastery (642)● Blessed Prochorus of Pechenga● Russian New martyr Alexis Stavrovsky, priest (1918)● Hieromartyr Felix and Deacon Eusebius● Other commemorations:● Translation of the relics of Venerable John of Rila, abbot in Bulgaria

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.